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Finally, a military strike against North Korea would infuriate China, an emerging superpower with which the Bush Administration has sought stable, cordial relations. Hitting North Korea at the risk of turning China into an outright hostile power isn't a trade anyone in the Administration wants to make...
...friends, I almost always had to give him up for lost. ... So don't allow the slightest drop of venom into your subconsciousness. It would be such a pity on our fine relations. Surely not that I believed the woman would complain about me outright; it's a matter of indirect influence on the emotions, by which women so often get the better of us. My relations with the boys have frozen up completely again. Following an exceedingly nice Easter excursion, the subsequent days in Zurich brought on a complete chilling in a way that is not quite explicable...
...title message; he’s the “rambler, the gambler, the back-slider” he seems to be addressing. He’s neither as strong nor as sacred as he might claim. However, Cash’s denial of his fraility changes into an outright confession during “If You Could Read My Mind,” a retooled Gordon Lightfoot song and the climax of the album. The lyrics describe how one might imagine a lover as beyond perfect, “just like an old-time movie ‘bout...
...Panda and Grande Punto, and streamlining management, Marchionne personally negotiated the deal that forced General Motors to pay out $2 billion to Fiat to free itself from a put option in the companies' 2000 joint-operating accord that could have forced the U.S. automaker to buy the Turin company outright. In the coming years, however, Elkann is expected to become the singular face of Fiat. "Because of his background, John's international mentality is not a question of schooling, it's a natural part of who he is. This is a great advantage," Montezemolo says of Elkann. More than ever...
...much energy advocating hard-line government "solutions" that don't stand a chance of being enacted. Sure, it might be good for the planet if governments banned the use of sport-utility vehicles - or, for that matter, of all fossil fuels. Yet not only is it hard to sell outright prohibitions to voters, but the sad truth is that governments have a woeful record in even the mildest interventions. One of the most significant innovations in the last decade has been Europe's carbon-emission trading scheme: some 12,000 companies, responsible for more than half...